Wednesday, March 2, 2011

I happen to be one of a minority who loves the old Mk I Land Raider. And so when I got a couple of these kits I wanted to figure a way to work it into my Crimson Templar army. So I decided to make one into a Land Raider Prometheus. This would be the ancient HQ Land Raider of my army. A Land Raider since the days of Heresy that has been leading the Crimson Templars through thousands of campaigns.

I converted the Mark I by basically stripping out the center of the model and keeping only the bottom. The Forge World kit provides two pieces for the center hull. below these I put a Black Templar Land Raider door from the Black Templar conversion box set. I had to set that on a piece of plasticard since it wouldn't fill the gap between the front FW piece and the bottom.

Then I built up the back. Here I used a Mk II Land Raider engine section. Between that and the rear FW piece in the back I put a piece of Plasticard on which I glued a two piece crew hatch and a radar dish.

Finally, Mk II Land Raider sponsons fit perfectly on the Mk I Land Raider. So the Heavy Bolter sponson went on and then the whole beauty was sent to Aaron Lovejoy, Golden Daemon winning painter, who has painted every vehicle in my army.